Harold Tomlinson (1899–1951) was a 20th-century British architect.
Tomlinson was based at the
University of Cambridge
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School of
Architecture
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. There he supervised the Scottish architect
Frank James Connell.
The current
ADC Theatre
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used by the
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club
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The club stages a diverse range of productions every term, many of them at the fully equi ...
in
Park Street, central
Cambridge
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, was designed by Harold Tomlinson and
W.P. Dyson. It reopened in 1935 after a fire that destroyed the original building in 1933.
Tomlinson also designed the main building for
Cambridge Airport
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south of
Newmarket Road on the eastern edge of the city.
Newmarket Road: Cambridge Airport
Cambridge 2000
This was constructed during 1936–37 and the airport opened in 1938.
Bibliography
* Harold Tomlinson, "Towards a New Architecture." In Irena Murray and Julian Osley (editors), ''Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , , ), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was ...
and Britain: An Anthology''. Routledge
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, 2008. .
References
1899 births
1951 deaths
Architects from Cambridgeshire
Academics of the University of Cambridge
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